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A SKETCH OF THE CHILDEEN OF DR. WILLIAM 
PAINE (ESTHER ORNE PAINE, HARRIET PAINE, 



WILLIAM FITZ PAINE), ^^ 



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FREDERICK WILLIAM PAINE, 

the public spirited citizen. 

1774—1869. 

By MRS. E. 0. P. STURGIS. 

From Proceedings of Worcester Society of Antiquity 



List of previous papers by the same writer, printed by the Worcester 
Society of Antiquity : — 

I. Old Time Cattle Show. Bulletin of Worcester Society of Antiqui- 
ty, page 104, Vol. XVI., 1898. 

II. Extracts from Old Worcester Letters, Vol. XVI., 1899, page 557. 

III. Old Lincoln Street. Bygone days in Worcester. 1900, Vol. 
XVII. , page 123. 

IV. The Story of three Old Houses. Residences of Hon. Levi 
Lincoln. Proceedings, Vol. XVII., 1900, page 134. 

V. Old Worcester, No. 1, Vol. XVII., page 402, 1901. Lincoln 
Square. Main and Front Streets. Prominent houses and their occu- 
pants. 

VI. Old Worcester, No. 2, Vol. XVII., page 413, 1901. Main and 
Pleasant Streets. Buildings and notable people residing there. 

VII. Old Worcester, No. 3, Vol. XVII., page 470, 1901. Main Street 
residences. The Second Parish (Unitarian) Church and its parishioners, 
during the pastorates of Rev. Dr Aaron Bancroft and Rev. Dr. Alonzo 
Hill. The Gardiner Chandler House and the House of Rev. Dr. Aaron 
Bancroft. 

VIII. Old Worcester, No. 4. Worcester, Massachusetts, about 1840, 
Vol. XVIII., page 69. 1902. Chestnut Street. Pearl Street and its 
vicinit3^ Some facts Concerning Colored People and Domestic Service 
in the early life of Worcester. 

IX. A Sketch of the Chandler Family in Worcester, Massachusetts, 
Vol. XIX., 1903, page 129. Judge John Chandler, 3rd, died in Worcester, 
17G2, aged 69 years. Hon. John Chandler, 4th, "The Honest Refugee," 
born in Worcester 1720, died in London 1800. His hfe, and notices 
of some of his sixteen children. Judge Timothy Paine, Mandamus 
Counsellor, bom in Bristol, R. I., 1730, died in Worcester 1793, the 
ardent tory and his family. Dr. William Paine, born in Worcester 
1750, died there 1833. His eminence as a physician, and his unswerving 
loyalty to the Crown. 

X. Concerning Schools for Girls in Worcester in former days and 
Amusements for young people. Vol. XIX., page 246, 1903. 



THE HAMILTON PRESS 
311 MAIN STREET 
WORCESTER, MASS. 



A SKETCH OF THE CHILDREN OF DR. WILLIAM 

PAINE. 



" We are like shadows and 
Like shadows we depart." 



It is now more than thirty years since the youngest and 
last of Dr. Paine's children passed away, and as I am 
the only person living who knows anything about the 
elder members of that family, it may be well for me, before 
I too go hence, to write down what I remember of them. 
Not that there was anything of importance in their lives 
to recall or any events to commemorate, but because years 
hence some one interested in ancient lore may care to 
read some notice of a family which, including the third gen- 
eration of the elder branch, has for more than one hun- 
dred and fifty years been identified with the little village, 
the town and the city of Worcester. The ''Paine family" 
is fast dying out, and will soon, like many other of the 
old Worcester families, become extinct. 

Dr. Paine was married on the 23d of September, 1773, 
to Miss Lois Orne of Salem, he having probably become 
acquainted with her when he was, to quote John Adams, 
"studying physic," as a young medical student with Dr. 
Holyoke in that town. This "Orne family" is descended 
from an Englishman by the name of John Home, of humble 
parentage, who was born and bred in the parish of St. 
James, Clerkenwell, London, and earned his living by 
working at the trade of a carpenter. He came to this 
country in the fleet with Winthrop and settled in Salem 
in 1630, becoming, in 1631, a freeman in that town, and 
was styled "a, builder of houses." Dr. Bently says he 
was a "Deacon in The Church" for fifty years, — then a title 



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of more significance than in these latter days, and one 
which would have given him the right at that period to 
be called "A God fearing man." In the earliest records 
of Salem his name is spelt "John Home," but he died in 
1685, aged eighty-two years and left a will, signed John 
Orne. In an early record I read the following: 

"As the early settlers lapsed into the habit of spelling 
or writing their names as they were sounded, the employ- 
ment of certain letters appeared to be useless ; consequently 
they were omitted. The signing of the name John Orne 
to so important a document as a last Will and Testament 
would not at that time be considered an illegal or an 
unnatural act." 

And again, "When John Home of Salem died in 1685, 
leaving a will, which he had signed as John Orne, there 
seems to have been no questions raised; he had, however, 
been a promment man, and slight differences in the spelling 
of names were not infrequent." "John Orne," as he must 
now be styled, left a large family of children, of whom I 
can learn nothmg, except that his oldest daughter was 
named "Recompense." This Christian name, with Submit, 
Patience, Deliverance and Prudence, was frequently be- 
stowed on girls in the old colonial days. A grandson of 
John Orne, by the name of Timothy, a favorite name for 
boys in former times, was my great-great-grandfather, and 
was married in 1709, to Lois Pickering, of a noted family in 
Essex County and elsewhere. They had fifteen children, but 
there are only two of them of whom I have any knowledge. 
Lois married Thomas Lee; and Timothy, Jr., — a Harvard 
graduate — my great-grandfather, married Rebecca Taylor 
of Lynn, who was bom in 1727; and from these two couples 
have come down an immense family connection of Lees, 
Cabots, Pames, Saltonstalls, Pickmans, Gardners, Peabodys, 
Macks, Cushings, Clarks, Lorings and others too numerous 
to mention. Timothy Orne, Jr., had five children: Mrs. 
Clark Gaton Pickman, from whom Dr. George B. Loring 



was descended; Rebecca, who was married to Joseph 
Cabot; Esther to Rev. Dr. John Clark, the minister of 
the First Church in Boston, who died in its pulpit 
in 1798; and Lois, my grandmother, the wife of Dr. William 
Paine. There was one son, Timothy, 3d, who married a 
daughter of Judge William Pyncheon. 

You have all doubtless read the "House of Seven Gables," 
and will recall the fact that the family that lived there 
bore the name of Pyncheon, and that Judge Pyncheon, so 
styled, though not a resident of the mansion, died in it, 
he being the "evil one" of the family. The real Judge 
Pyncheon was a shining light in the community, a man of 
mark in the "old Witch Town," and one whom his 
townspeople looked up to with great respect, so one cannot 
wonder that when the novel was published, the descendants 
of Judge Pyncheon called upon Mr. Hawthorne for an ex- 
planation for taking such "an unwarrantable liberty with 
the name of their ancestor, one honored from the earliest 
days of the Colony." The answer of Hawthorne to this 
charge is too long to quote here, but it is interesting and 
may be read in the "Diary of William Pyncheon," published 
by one of his descendants, the late Dr. E. F. Oliver. 

The father of Mrs. Paine seems to have been a man of 
means, for he gave to each of his daughters when they 
married £3,000, a large sum in those days, and a silver table 
service. His house, an old colonial mansion, is still stand- 
ing, and was probably in his day on the outskirts of 
Salem, but is now in the business portion of it, and used for 
business purposes. This "Orne family" seem to have been 
large ship owners, and in turning over the leaves of an 
old record, I find page after page filled with the names 
of vessels, either owned or chartered by them, for they were 
largely interested in the East India trade. Their wills also 
indicate that they owned a large quantity of real estate 
in Essex County. Although the descendants of "John 
Horne" called themselves "Orne," the original name was 



not forgotten, and Mrs. Sparks, the widow of the late 
President of Harvard College, told me that in her early- 
days in Salem, if any member of the family did anything 
out of the common course of things, that the old crones 
would sing out, "There never was a horn without a crook." 
The "Orne Kink," too, was a designation given to any of 
the family, if they departed from well trodden paths, or 
elected to live their lives to suit themselves, and not after 
the fashion of their neighbors. 

There is an oil painting in existence of Lois Orne, the 
wife of the first Timothy, and one of her son Timothy and 
of his wife Rebecca. The two last are nearly full length. 
He, as a young man, is dressed in the conventional cos- 
tume of the day, wearing a wig; she, in a blue silk dress, 
made with elbow sleeves, and much white about the open 
neck, and on her head she wears a little muslin cap, and 
holding a flower in her hand. A photograph of this 
picture of Rebecca Orne, my great-grandmother, may be 
seen in a book called, "Two Centuries of Costume," recently 
published by Alice Morse Earle. My grandmother too was 
painted as a little girl, perhaps of three years of age. The 
tiny child is standing, dressed in white silk, her gown long, 
made after the fashion of her mother's, and on her head 
she too wears a little cap and in her hand she holds a rattle. 
These old portraits now belong to Robert Saltonstall of 
Boston, and the little Lois looks down from her place on 
the wall of the house on her grandchildren in the fifth 
generation. 

Dr. Paine took his bride to Worcester, where they ap- 
parently lived with his father, Judge Timothy Paine, and 
where their first child was born, the only one of their children 
born in that town. Now here I shall have to drop the 
threads of my story, and not gather them together again 
until October 5th, 1784, on which date Judge Pyncheon 
notes in his diary the arrival of Dr. Paine and family from 
Halifax in Salem — and what a relief it must have been 



to settle down among their kinsfolk and acquaintances, 
after all those years of banishment from their home. Here 
Dr. Paine bought a house, one still standing in Summer 
street, and began the practice of his profession, which was 
a large and lucrative one; and to again quote Judge Pyn- 
cheon — I read in his diary of dmner, card and tea parties 
at my grandfather's house, and of Dr. Paine and his wife 
attending such gatherings at the houses of their friends — 
of a dancing school for the children, and other recreations 
of a simple nature. The Judge writes: "At evening Mrs. 
Paine and family go to dancing-school, and are much 
entertained there." Dr. Paine went to Worcester soon 
after his arrival in Salem, to visit his parents, and Mrs. 
Paine accompanied him, and some of the family visited 
them m return. 

In 1793, Dr. Paine removed to Worcester and took 
possession of the family estate called ''The Oaks," and 
here he lived until 1833, when he died, never leaving his 
home again except for short visits to his relatives in Boston 
and Salem. My grandmother died in 1822. 

Let us look at Lincoln street as it probably was in those 
days. Some way down the street was the "Old Hancock 
House," occupied by Levi Lincoln the elder. Then came 
the Timothy Paine house, and beyond the "Hancock 
Arms." Daniel Waldo the elder removed from Lancaster 
to Worcester in 1782 and was now living in the Chandler 
house in Lincoln Sq. His hardware store stood, so he 
advertises, July 21, 1785, "on the east side of the bridge 
over Mill Brook, and opposite the Prison." 

Opposite "The Oaks" was the "Noah House,"* and in 
front of the Hancock House, a barn. There may have 
been other houses in the street, but if so I never heard 
of them. In the Paine family there were five children, 



* Mrs. Bancroft in her letter to her daughter concerning the family of her father 
John Chandler spells the name of " Noah ' " Noa. " 



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Esther, Harriet, William, Eliza and Frederick. In the 
Lincoln family there were seven, Levi, Enoch, Waldo, 
John, William, Rebecca and Martha. These little Whigs 
and Tories soon became acquainted with each other, and 
unmindful of the animosity which had formerly existed 
between their parents, engendered by the Revolution, 
played together, having ample playground in this rural 
thoroughfare, the old post road to Boston; and so con- 
tracted friendships with each other which only ended with 
their lives. 

On Salisbury street lived Dr. Aaron Bancroft, with 
a large family of children, who were second cousins to the 
Paine children; but if all the thirteen were born in the 
Salisbury street house, I am not sure. The elder ones were 
Henry, John, Eliza, Mary, Thomas, Jane and George, who 
was born in 1800. It was not until after the late Levi 
Lincoln married Penelope Sever that these three families 
became of kin to each other. Down in Lincoln square 
lived little Stephen Salisbury, the only child of his parents, 
whom George Bancroft used to lead into mischief — but I 
will let the old historian tell his own story. In Washington, 
not long before he died, he received a visit from a nephew 
of Madam Salisbury, and reverting to the days of his youth, 
he said, "Your Aunt Salisbury did not like me, and she 
said I was a wild boy. She was always fearful that I 
would get her son into bad ways, and still more alarmed 
lest I should be the cause of his being brought home dead. 
I used to beguile Stephen to a pond in the vicinity, and having 
constructed a rough sort of raft, he and I would pass a 
good deal of our playtime in aquatic amusements, not 
by any means unattended with danger. His mother's 
remonstrances were all in vain, and though nothing serious 
occurred beyond an occasional wetting, yet I never rose 
in her estimation, and a wild bad boy I continued to be 
up to manhood." 

Lincoln street and Salisbury street seem far apart, but 




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the Lincoln and Paine children had only to run down the 
hill at the back of their houses and the Bancrofts to run 
through the woods in the rear of their house, and they 
met on conunon ground, for in those days, to use a Scotch 
phrase, the Lincoln, Paine and Salisbury estates "marched 
with each other." Stephen Salisbury had only to come 
from his back gate, and he could in a few moments join 
his playmates. Crossing where the Rural Cemetery now 
is, through the woods, they could in five minutes be at 
one of the points where the Lincoln and Paine grounds 
join. Most all of these young people lived to be old men 
and women, and the larger part of them are now resting 
quietly on the spot which once resounded with their joyous 
laughter. What a playground had these young people! 
Four hundred acres at least over which they had full sway. 
In the winter Lincoln and North Ponds on which to 
skate; coasting on Lincoln street, for in those days 
the hill was very steep, and if the snow was beaten 
down, they could coast half way down it. In the autumn 
there were butternuts, chestnuts, shag or shell barks and 
pignuts, and apples everywhere for them to gather. In 
the early spring and summer there were plenty of flowers in 
blossom — lilies on Lincoln's Pond, anemones, hepaticas, 
pigeon berries and other wild flowers, while the young leaves 
of the checkerberry, the special name of which I have for- 
gotten, and ground pine grew on the western side of the water. 
On the eastern side was plenty of mint, and on the Paine 
land near at hand wild iris and cat-o-nine-tails were to be 
found. In the woods there were wild geraniums and 
columbines, while over at the Hermitage laurel grew in 
profusion on the banks of the pond, and near by the bril- 
liant cardinal flower flourished in the damp soil. On the 
top of Mrs. Noah's hill grew pennyroyal, which children 
used to gather to keep mosquitoes away. 

Wild strawberries grew in the pastures; and thimble 
and raspberry bushes inside the fences, yielded fruit; while 



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the wild grape and blackberry vines ran over the low stone 
walls, — all affording great pleasure for these young people. 
Esther Orne Paine was the oldest of Dr. Paine's children. 
She was born at Worcester August 29, 1774; and married 
her cousin, Joseph Cabot of Salem, September 10, 1795, 
and left Worcester to reside in that town. Mr. Cabot 
soon died, leaving her with two young children, Joseph 
Sebastian and William Paine Cabot, with limited means, 
so she returned to Worcester. Dr. Paine seems to 
have been fond of these grandchildren, for when I 
was a child there stood in the chaise house with 
Judge Paine's glass coach, a beautiful little carriage, 
which he had imported from England — so Miss Cabot 
their aunt stated — for their use; and the high chair he 
provided for them to sit in at the table is still in existence. 
I have heard that Mrs, Cabot was an attractive woman, 
and had many offers of marriage, to none of which would 
Dr. Paine give his consent. Finally one offer was so un- 
exceptional that it was only when her father promised not 
to interfere in any future matrimonial arrangements, did 
she agree to give this one up. Mrs. Cabot drifted back 
to Salem after a time, and soon a new suitor appeared on 
the scene in the person of Mr. Ichabod Tucker, or as he 
was usually called "Squire Tucker." He had been a lawyer 
in Haverhill, but now was Clerk of the Courts in Salem, 
in which town he was held in great esteem. Mr. Tucker, 
though not born in Worcester, was connected with a family 
who resided there, who did not belong by any means to 
what Disraeli calls in one of his novels "the high nobility," 
of Worcester, and Dr. Paine being critical on such points, 
was much displeased with the match. The two sons of 
Mrs. Cabot were equally so; and the eldest, who then was 
a Harvard student, refused to go with his mother to her 
new home, but went to live with his grandmother Cabot, 
whose house and property he inherited and in which he 
continued to reside the larger part of his long life. The 



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wedding took place at Mrs. Cabot's home, and the younger 
son, much against his wishes, was obUged to obey his 
mother and go with her, though at the last moment he 
refused to get into the carriage waiting at the door, to 
take the bridal party to Mr. Tucker's house, and it required 
some stronger force than moral suasion before the young 
gentleman was safely landed in the vehicle. In the mean- 
time the driver of the coach leaned over from his seat 
and taking part in the fray, said, ''Come now, William, 
you behave yourself, and be a good boy and get in." A 
looker-on gave me an amusing account of the affair. This 
youth did not remain long in Salem after this date, but 
returned to Worcester and lived with Dr. Paine imtil 1823 
when he rejoined his mother in Salem, where he died in 
early manhood. Mrs. Tucker died on February 1st, 1854, 
the last years of her life being entirely uneventful. She 
was not a handsome woman, but a dignified and high 
bred one in appearance and might have been called, as 
she was, "A lady of the old school." In her younger days, 
she had realized all the hardships arising from the Revolu- 
tion — for she recalled the hurried journey from Worcester 
to Newport, then in the possession of the British army; 
the long and wearisome journey to Halifax with her mother 
to meet her father; the desolate life on the "Island of 
La T6te," in Passamaquoddy Bay, given to Dr. Paine by 
the English government; and the life in St. John, where 
she was surrounded by her kinsfolk. In her youth she 
had imbibed the political opinions of her father and she 
died as she had lived, an uncompromising British subject. 
The second child of Dr. Paine, born at Newport, only 
lived a few weeks. The third, Harriet, was probably born 
at Halifax Nov. 21, 1779. She was married in Worcester 
March 17, 1802, to Joseph Warner Rose, an Englishman, 
and a West Indian planter. Mrs. Rose accompanied him 
to Antigua, where she lived on a plantation, called "The 
Valley." There were nine children, but only two of them 



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lived to grow up. One was the late Mrs. John C. Lee of 
Salem, and the youngest Mrs. Dr. George Chandler of 
Worcester. Mrs. Rose was said to have been a woman of 
great personal beauty, and to have had many admirers, 
and among them the Richard Derby of his day, who, tradi- 
tion says, once kneeled and imploringly offered him- 
self to the handsome Harriet Paine. Mrs. Rose, unlike 
her sister Mrs. Tucker, who had become a Unitarian, retained 
her interest in the Episcopal church, for her royalist father 
had taught her in her youth to worship church and state, 
and to pray for King and Queen and all the royal family, 
and in her pew in St. Peter's, she prayed every sunday for 
the President and all others iu authority. Mrs. Rose died 
in Salem June 20, 1860, aged eighty years. 

William Fitz Paine,* the fourth child of Dr. Paine, was 
born in Halifax, N. S., November 2, 1783. He entered 
Harvard College, 1797, remaining there only three years, 
and from this time until 1821, he seems to have led a wan- 
dering life in foreign countries, mostly in the Far East, 
engaged in mercantile pursuits, coming home from time 
to time to visit his family. Among other places where 
he resided was Port Louis, in the Island of Mauritius, and 
I have heard my father say that he met him by accident 
once in the street there, they not having seen each other 
for some years. From 1821, Mr. Paine resided in Batavia, 
in the island of Java, where he founded a commercial 
house under the title of Paine, Strieker & Co. He died 
suddenly on July 21, 1834. When found he was lying on 
a couch, the book he had been reading having fallen over 
his face. I have heard recently the apparent cause of his 
expatriating himself as he did, for so many years. It 
seems there was a handsome young girl in Worcester, a 
distant relative, with whom he was in love, but she did 



* Mr. William Fitz Paine, fourth child of Dr. Paine, took the middle name of 
"Fitz," meaning the " son of," to distinguish him from his father. 



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not smile on him, and he took the disappointment so much 
to heart, that he left the country and never returned to 
it again. 

Years later an American man-of-war touched at the 
Island of Java, on board of which was a midshipman, a 
nephew of the lady referred to above, who went to Batavia 
to pay his respects to his kinsman, and Mr. Paine made 
the most minute enquiries after his aunt, who had been 
married for many years to another suitor for her hand. 

The fifth child was Elizabeth Putnam Paine, born at 
St, John, N. B., June 26, 1786, and who died unmarried 
April 30, 1810, at Worcester. Her body was removed, 
with those of her mother and father, from the Mechanic 
street grave-yard to the Rural Cemetery. 

My father, the late Frederick William Paine, named for 
the King of Prussia, the youngest child of Dr. Paine, was 
born at Salem, Massachusetts, May 23, 1788, and remained 
in that town unt-il he was six years old, when he removed 
with his parents to Worcester. I see by an old record, 
that he was baptised in St. Peter's church before he left 
his birthplace in Salem. He began his education at a 
famous dames' school, kept by Mrs. Higginson, the widow 
of John Higginson, who was fifth in descent from Rev. 
Francis Higginson, pastor of the first church in Salem, but 
where he continued his school life in Worcester, I have 
no means of knowing. When he was fourteen years old, 
he corrected the proof-sheets of the first Greek Testament 
published in North America. The following year, 1803, 
he entered an advanced class in Harvard College. But 
at the end of nine months he exchanged an academical for 
a commercial life. At this time the standard of scholar- 
ship at Harvard was not a high one, and I have heard 
him say, that he knew more than his teachers did, and 
that he spent most of his college life playing checkers. In 
1819, he received an "Honorary Degree" from the College. 
Up to 1818^Mr. Paine was engaged in mercantile pursuits. 



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In 1806, he made a voyage as supercargo round the world, 
visiting the northwest coast, and China, returning to this 
country in 1809. It was the custom in those days for 
vessels to go to the northwest coast, and there to obtain 
a cargo of furs collected by an agent on the spot, and 
take them to China, where they brought large prices, 
and from there the vessels came home loaded with 
teas, and other Chinese goods. In 1812, he again 
made the same voyage, visiting the Philippine Islands 
and the Isle of France, returning to the United States in 
1816. He had been on the northwest coast so much that 
he had acquired the language of the Indians and was able 
to converse in their dialect. In 1818 he went to Europe, 
where he resided for nearly five years, in the employ 
of Messrs. James and Thomas H. Perkins, living most 
of the time in London, but travelling at times on the 
continent. 

After his return to this country, he married on May 5, 
1822, Ann Cushing Sturgis of Boston. In the winter of 
1825 and 1826, Mr. Paine again went to London in the 
employ of the Messrs. Perkins, leaving his wife and one 
child with her father, Mr. Russell Sturgis. He returned home 
in the autumn of 1826, and from that time resided in Worces- 
ter at "The Oaks," he having a life interest in that estate, 
and with the exception of visits to his kinsfolk in Boston 
and Salem, rarely left home, devoting much of his time 
to town affairs. He was for many years, chairman of the 
board of selectmen; President of the Worcester County 
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; and held other minor offices 
in banks and other institutions. He was one of the founders 
of The Horticultural Society, and one of its most active 
members in promoting its ends and aims. The Rural 
Cemetery, from its inception, was a great object of interest 
to Mr. Paine, and until the work was finished he rarely 
failed to spend a part of each afternoon there, superintend- 
ing the workmen, and the laying out of the grounds. The 



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Antiquarian Society too claimed much of his attention, and 
for many years he was an active member, and up to the 
last was a collector of reading matter of value to that 
institution. 

Mr, Paine was a very quiet person, and rarely spoke 
unless he was spoken to or had something of importance 
to communicate. He occupied much of his time in reading, 
and having a most retentive memory, and extensive knowl- 
edge of foreign countries, was always able to give information 
about "men and things," when asked to do so. I have 
heard that when some one in Lincoln street mentioned 
that he was about buying an encyclopedia, it was suggested 
to him that such a purchase was entirely unnecessary as 
"Mr. Paine went up and down the street every day." He 
had no long illness — was not as well as usual for a few 
days, was speaking to some one in the room and the end 
came. He died September 16, 1869, in his eighty-first . 
year, and on September 20th after a short service at the 
house, the funeral took place from the church of the Second 
Parish, and he was laid at rest with his father and mother 
in the Rural Cemetery, over the formation of which he 
had watched so faithfully. 

The Worcester Evening Gazette of Sept. 16, 1869, says: 
"We are unhappily compelled to record to-day the death 
of another venerable citizen. Frederick William Paine, 
Esq., one of the oldest, most respected and most public 
spirited men in Worcester, died very suddenly, this morning. 
The news of his death will occasion profound feelings of 
sorrow in the community, with which he had so long 
been identified. There have been other men more widely 
known abroad, and others perhaps more prominent at 
different times in the history of the city, but very few 
can be compared to Mr. Paine, in the solid services which 
he has performed, and in the untirmg zeal with which 
he has labored to promote the best interests of the 
public." 



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" And our names shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our 
works in remembrance, for our time is a very shadow that passe th 
away; and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud." 

— Songs of Solomon. 



LE D 'II 



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A SKETCH OF THE CHILDREN 



OF 



DR. WILLIAM PAINE 



1774—1869 



BY 



MRS. B. O. P. STURGIS 



PRIVATELY PRINTED 



